City College of New York - Microcosm Yearbook (New York, NY)

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large at the rally ... a women's group, the Public Education Association visited tho college, was impressed . . . promised to fight for increased funds ... it looked hopeless. . . . One hundred years of changing tempos and times were celebrated on Centennial Charter Day . . . men who had left the collcgo yoars boforc . . . men who had made their mark came back and received honorary doctorates in tho Groat Hall . . . seven distinguished alumni received their new aca- demic honors. ... A centennial sigh arose as Mayor William O'Dwyer, guost speaker at the ceremonies, said . . . This has always boon a hard school . . . this is a hard school at the present time . . . and I hope in the future it will remain a hard school. . . . The Centennial Fund for a Student War Momorial Building was sot at SI.500,000 ... when $1,200,000 was plodged, tho goal was raised to S3.000.000. ... Time had changed a small geology department into a large, active one . . . installation of a seismograph and a weather sta- tion was begun in tho basement of Finley Hall in the Fall of '47 ... it was underwritten by Professor Joseph Babor.... Tho time changod and moved on . .. tho Collogc playod host for the first time on May 1. 1948 to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers . . . distinguished engineers from in- dustry and universities spoke . . . awards wore givon for tho best student papers . . . tho convention closed with a dance at the Hotel Ascot....

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right of AYD to exist on the campus . . . the Schultz Amendment was defeated ... a proposed Thomas Committee investiga- tion of the college never materialized.... And moro ... in the Fall of '47 the ad- ministration banned a speaker who had been invited by the Marxist Cultural So- ciety to their meeting . . . students were aroused at this attempt to abridge free spooch . . . the day and hour scheduled for the meeting witnessed a student pro- test rally which denounced the action of the administration . . . later the author- ities reconsidered their action ... relented a little.... Then another blow . . . the Collego budget was cut by the Mayor's Budget Committee which later revised its esti- mate upward and granted an additional $51,000...this reduced tho cut to $127,000 . . . students, faculty, and administration protested ... 28 instructors and 12 cleri- cal and laboratory workers would have to be dropped .. . students looked about them and saw crowded classes .. . knew tho budget slash would make the classes larger ... a protest rally, a strike, and a march on City Hall were recommended . . . all but the rally was called off . . . classes wore cut and attendance was A cheap Friday night date Groat Hal! and that Groat Day Townsend Harris Avenue

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The Clasanightora onstago The tempo is solemn on April 15 . . . the day Franklin Delano Roosevelt died . . . memorial mootings aro hold . . . the sorrow is deep and sincere. . . . With the changing times and the incoming vets, a new paper rose from the minds of a fow and the desiros of many ex G.L's ... Observation Post . . . sponsored by the American Veterans Committee and the Veterans Association the pa- per first appeared in the Spring of '47 . . . gradu- ally the emphasis on vet's news gave way to coverage of gonoral student news. . . . Campus became Campu for one issue when the s slipped off the paper's flag ... it con- tinued to fight for elimination of the Latin ro- quiroment for the B. A. degree ... it pointed with pride to its expose of the Lunchroom scandal . . . it inaugurated a scroll of honor which it pre- pared to award to the most eminent faculty mombor oach term . . . the first scroll was pre- sented to Professor Harry Shulman for his out- standing work in improving racial relations. . . . A new literary magazine. Z appeared . . . sold for fifteen conts . . . hoped to rival Pulse magazine... . The changing times brought contests into vogue . . . Observation Post and Dramsoc co- sponsored a metropolitan wide One Act Play Contest . . . Mr. E came to the Hill when the When my gargoyle smilen at mo